It’s National Donut Day! (If you haven’t scored some yet, check out Foodbeast’s list of everyone who’s giving away free treats.) The donut has certainly had the foodie treatment in recent years, with specialty shops springing up in hip cities around the country. Now you can get unconventional flavors, from Froot Loops to Country Ham & Eggs, but not everyone is on board. A recent Ipsos poll asked individuals about their favorite flavors—who knew cream-filled was America’s fave?…

No matter how you slice it, New York City is one of the world’s most popular filming locations. From the top of the towering skyline, to the cab filled streets of Times Square, the city has featured in more than 517 films… and that’s just in the last 3 years. So where are the most popular areas to film? Metrocosm broke it down by visualizing all the film permit data from the “Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting” (every city should have one!), creating a street-centric heat map that quickly reveals some very hot filming locations (17,241 in 3 years to be exact).…

We don’t get too many opportunities to write about airline safety videos, and there’s a pretty good reason: they are stare-into-space-dreaming-about-anything-else BORING. Then you have this version from Delta.

Remember the gigantic Zack Morris cell phone of the early 90’s? Apple would never create something so hideous. But what if Steve Jobs had visualized the iPhone 20 years earlier? The Macintosh Phone is what we would have had. Pierre Cerveau designs the concept of this retro awesomeness along with ads that might have lined the billboards of 80’s NYC. With a rotary phone dial, bulky pixelated screen, and 512kb of space, this would have been hipper than hipsters. …

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a global mission to save children from life-threatening disease, and their raising awareness using art. Commissioning works from more than 30 world-renowned photographers, painters, sculptors, writers, filmmakers, and musicians, they are telling stories about how vaccines continue to change the course of history. They’re not-so-small goal? Reach all the world’s children by 2020.…

Listening to a concert is one thing, seeing it is another, and this is something different all together. These two videos are the work of Stephen Malinowski, and his Music Animation Machine, or MAM. Using it, he’s distilled complex classical music pieces into colorful visualizations that help us to distinguish between the many instruments, and complex timings involved in performing them. It’s one more way to appreciate these masterworks.…

No matter how long you’ve known and loved your girlfriend and no matter how sure you are that she will say “yes”, popping the question will still make your heart tremble.Redditor jakeinfusino decided to wear a heart rate monitor as he built up the confidence to ask his girlfriend to be his wife. He fed the data through Particular/ Form and used After Effects to create this awesome visualization. Although it took 40 minutes to pop the question and let his heart rest again, this 90 second video shows the highs and lows as he gained the courage to ask that magic question. …

Perhaps the two most famous cinematic hotels are Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest and The Overlook from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining.’ How fitting then, that this incredible mashup from filmmaker Steve Ramsden puts the two iconic places together like they were built that way.…

In 2014, 27.7% of American adults were obese (BMI 30+), and that number is up 2.2% over the last 7 years. Meanwhile the number of people who are classified as overweight (BMI 25-29.9) has dropped by 1.5%, and people classified as normal bodyweight (BMI 18.1-24.9) has dropped slightly by 1%.

This points to a troubling trend – the population as a whole is getting heavier, with many people moving towards being overweight and obese.…

This 2-minute time-lapse from EarthCam has been in creation since October 2004 when construction began on One World Trade Center. It finally wrapping up this year on Memorial Day 2015… 11-years later. Just released as the official time-lapse video of the building’s construction, it begins with below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the new building. It completes as the structure is sealed by its highly reflective windows and takes its place as the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, at 104 floors and 1,792 feet tall.…